Leading Women for Tomorrow is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has been brought to the university by Rachel Sweet, the recently appointed president of the UW chapter.
Noted: Among them was Marion Cranefield, one of the first Madison men killed in World War I. Cranefield was a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior when he joined the Army. He had tried to enlist the previous year to take part in the U.S. Army’s pursuit of Pancho Villa but was turned down because he was too thin. He wrote home from France, telling his family “it’s a wonderful country and worth dying for.”
UW-Madison has terminated its Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter after people pushed a television off the chapter’s balcony and nearly hit a woman this summer.
Thousands of miles from his hometown, Thousand Oaks, CA, UW-Madison freshman Matthew Mitnick said his nightmare began Wednesday night. He learned a gunman opened fire on a bar in his hometown.
Though it is often used as a concept in TV shows, movies, science fiction books and pop culture, Peter Vranas, a University of Wisconsin philosophy professor, took the topic seriously. He wondered how time travel should be defined and what would have to be true for it to exist.
The panel discussed some of the major cultural differences between campus life and life on a reservation, and the difficulties many students face bridging these differences.
Communications Specialist Xai Xiong said that of the eight total polling locations on campus, the voter turnout totaled 87 percent of those eligible to vote at these wards. Additionally, throughout the city of Madison, the pre-registered voter turnout totaled 92.9 percent.
Standing on a skateboard for the first time in her life, Bing Sun radiates joy. She’s taking it slow as she coasts down State Street, but it’s still thrilling. “When I was young, this was not so popular,” says Sun, a native of China and a visiting scholar at UW-Madison. “Then I got married, had a daughter — I had no time to play.”
Even though Nov. 11 is commemorated as the date of the armistice ending World War I, it’s also a day to honor all veterans, thanks to a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate.
The key to Tuesday’s stunning Democratic upset of Wisconsin’s eight-year Republican lock on state government came from a blue tsunami in Wisconsin’s largest counties and possibly a smaller wave on college campuses around the state.
Group chose not to recommend building high-rise on plot of land across from Psychology Building.
Being at South Texas Family Residential Center offered insight into immigration system in ways media hadn’t covered, panelists said.
Standing on a skateboard for the first time in her life, Bing Sun radiates joy. She’s taking it slow as she coasts down State Street, but it’s still thrilling. “When I was young, this was not so popular,” says Sun, a native of China and a visiting scholar at UW-Madison. “Then I got married, had a daughter — I had no time to play.”
After releasing his new book, Burt Folsom discusses New Deal with fresh perspective.
At exactly 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1943, Mildred Harnack (née Fish), Milwaukee native, UW-Madison alum and former UW-Milwaukee instructor, was beheaded.
NPR journalist David Folkenflik said journalists should not simply mirror what people in authority say.
The LG/LGBT/LGBTQ/LGBTQIA/ LGBTTQQIAAP+ community has a fair number of initialisms which encapsulate itself.
In a move reminiscent of the “fake news” peddled in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, a conservative Madison-based group blasted out a story on Election Day that falsely claims UW-Madison is giving out documents that, by themselves, allow non-citizens to vote.
There’s been a push to get everyone to the polls, but there’s been an even bigger push to get younger voters there.
Meredith McGlone, Director of News & Media Relations, said as of about 2 p.m., the university had issued approximately 500 photo ID cards on Election Day to students who needed them to vote. She added that that figure was on top of the near 8,000 ID cards issued previously. Final tallies are expected on Wednesday.
Joe Lalli is helping 20 patients at UW Hospital who ordinarily wouldn’t be able to get to the polls vote in the midterm election.
The Madison Poll Party event was organized by UW Hillel staff to encourage students to get out and vote, but most importantly, to remind people to take a breath on U.S. Election Day and during the voting process, according to Lizzy Wallis, the Springboard Social Justice Fellow at UW Hillel.
Noted: UW-Madison officials were seeing steady traffic at campus polling places with no reports of significant delays or disruptions, according to campus spokeswoman Meredith McGlone.
By 2 p.m., the university had issued approximately 500 photo ID cards on Election Day to students who needed them to vote. That’s in addition to 7,928 issued previously.
Though turnout rates have historically been lower during midterm elections, college students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison came out to vote and take in Tuesday’s election results at higher numbers than previous midterms.
NextGen focused on transforming youth energy into political engagement.
UW-Madison students will host a food drive to help stock a local food pantry weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Student Services Finance Committee voted to eliminate salaries for Grant Allocation Committee members while granting Associated Students of Madison the rest of their requested $1,272,839.70 budget in its meeting Monday night.
UW-Madison’s Native November Planning Leadership, composed of organizations like American Indian Science and Engineering Society and the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, has collaborated to organize a series of events to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
Noted: Separately, the leaders of Princeton University, the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University wrote a letter to DeVos expressing their “deep concern” that the government might drop civil rights protections under Title IX for transgender students.
The heads of Rutgers University, Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison asked Betsy DeVos in an open letter Thursday “to do everything you can” to stop the Trump administration from undermining the rights of transgender students.
On Nov. 1, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in support of legal protections for transgender individuals.
The heads of Princeton, Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin-Madison penned a joint letter Thursday urging Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to protect transgender students.
2015 survey found 27.6 percent of female undergraduate students had been sexually assaulted since attending UW.
As part of 2018 Diversity Forum, experts discussed progress, restrictions.
“It’s sort of strange to be paying for the ability to work,” said Representative Ruben Moreno as the Teaching Assistants’ Association returned to work with the 25th session to halt the mandatory segregated fees policy.
Milwaukee Brewers founder and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Bud Selig knows a lot about overcoming obstacles, staying the course and managing disappointment.
Allan “Bud” Selig, the founder of the Milwaukee Brewers and former commissioner of Major League Baseball, will deliver the headline speech at UW-Madison’s commencement ceremony in December.
This has been a big year for his beloved team, who came within one game of the World Series.
UW-Madison is bringing one of the biggest names in Wisconsin baseball history back to Madison for its winter commencement.
Organizers of the forum say Wednesday’s discussion comes at a critically important time because of how divided our nation has become on all topics.
Experts reacted to studies showing U.S. will be ’minority white’ by 2045.
Internal budget saw 7 percent reduction from last year.
He graduated from UW-Madison in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in American history and political science. He currently co-teaches an upper-level history course called Baseball and Society Since WWII.
“I love Madison and I love the university,” Selig said in a UW press release. “Those were four of the best years of my life. I could not be more thrilled and honored to accept this invitation.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden told a UW-Madison crowd Tuesday the upcoming elections are a referendum on America’s values and what he described as a radically changing Republican Party under President Donald Trump.
Former vice president and potential presidential contender Joe Biden urged students in Madison and workers in Milwaukee Tuesday to vote for candidates of character in what he called a “battle for America’s soul.”
Noted: “Back to School:” Rodney Dangerfield plays Thornton Meloni, a wealthy businessman who heads to college as an adult in the 1986 comedy “Back to School.” Meloni attends Grand Lakes University, but the school is a stand-in for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where many of the scenes were filmed.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is telling college students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that if they vote, they can “own” next week’s election.
Wisconsin Democratic candidates joined the former vice president to encourage voter turnout.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and WI union representative comprised panel.
UW-Madison is allocating $11.5 million in central campus funding for faculty and staff pay adjustments for 2018-’19.
Former Vice President Joe Biden was welcomed by over 1,000 people Tuesday morning in Madison during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is set to visit UW-Madison Tuesday to urge Wisconsin Democrats to vote before Election Day on Nov. 6.
“It is obviously very concerning they underspent by 28 percent. However, action has been taken, and they are being very compliant with our organization; I feel very comfortable voting in favor of this budget,” said Representative Landon Tselepis.
Hundreds of students and community members stood on the lawn outside Memorial Library to listen to students and campus leaders share their stories and reflect on Saturday’s events.
Students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a vigil on campus Monday to remember the 11 people killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue over the weekend.
When Madison police found a 22-year-old man on W. Lakelawn Place near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, he told them there was yellow and white powder all over his clothing because he had been baking a cake.
UW Law School students, under a supervising attorney, will represent victims at their injunction hearings and help them get orders of protection.
Across Wisconsin, universities are banning plastic straws, nonrecyclable takeout containers and plastic bags in campus dining halls. They are composting food scraps and collecting uneaten food for food pantries. And they are supporting local food growers or tending campus gardens to reduce the distance food travels.
Neither the Madison Club nor Union City, New Jersey, proved much of a match for Shirley Abrahamson.
Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in history, told a packed room at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Oct. 19 how, as a young lawyer at La Follette, Sinykin, Doyle & Anderson, a group of lobbyists tried to take her out for a lunch meeting at the private club in downtown Madison. “We walked into the front entrance and were stopped,” Abrahamson recalled at the law school’s annual Robert J. Kastenmeier lecture. First the group was ushered in through a side entrance and then they were told women couldn’t eat lunch there.
